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Sudoku
This slightly tricky
puzzle was invented
in Japan. You have The giggler
to fill in the spaces
with numbers from Q Why do golfers wear two pairs
1-9, so that when it of trousers?
is finished, every A In case they get a hole in one.
row, column and 3x3 Q What do you call a girl with burgers
box contains all the on her head?
numbers from 1-9. A Barbie.

The riddler
The sentence “The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram:
it uses every letter of the alphabet.
Other pangrams include “Five quack-
ing zephyrs jolt my wax bed” and “The
five boxing wizards jump quickly.”
Can you work

What Crack out the phrase

represented Book club
am I? the code here? It helps
if you say out
loud what you
The White Giraffe by Lauren St John
This is a book about 11-year-old Martine
Can you identify moving to South Africa. Her journeys
can see.
these garden are full of thrilling ad-
creatures from
the close-up Finger venture. She’s even got
to join a new school but

Finger
pictures? all she can think of is
the young white

Finger
For answers see tomorrow’s G2
Activity hold a sleepover!
Sleepovers are all the rage this summer. person who is “it” gently
The Natural History Museum has started taps each sleeping bag.
holding monthly dinosaur-themed If you get tapped, you
­sleepovers and Britain broke the have to say “piggly
­Guinness World Record this June for wiggly” in your
the biggest sleepover, with 20,000 kids ­funniest voice. The
snoozing their way to victory. Here are person who’s “it”
some tips for holding a great sleepover has to guess who
of your own . . . you are. If they guess
­correctly, you have
watch A MOVIE to crawl out of your
Pick a movie to watch and ask your sleeping bag. The last
guests to come dressed as their person left in their
­favourite character. You could have a ­sleeping bag wins.
Jungle Book-themed sleepover and
ask your friends to come dressed as HAVE A MIDNIGHT FEAST
jungle animals, for example. Make something tasty and artistic
by setting up a baking bar. Buy some
puzzles by clarity media
­giraffe she’s just
­discovered. It was a
really emotional,
spellbinding novel
and I look forward to
reading the other three
books in the series.
Review by Teilo Evans, age 12.
Email a review of your favourite book
at g2kids@guardian.co.uk
The riddler
Can you find the fruit hidden here?
My first is in pip but not in core.
My second is in less and in more.
My third is not in home but is in away.
My fourth is in second but not in day.
My fifth is the first letter of hay.
Yesterday’s answers
Crack the code Around the bend
What am I? Gingerbread man, crumpet,
croissant, waffle.
The riddler Brown
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